Freeman says he began investigating the show after Jermaine Jones was kicked off on March 15, 2012, because he didn't inform producers about multiple outstanding warrants for his arrest. Freeman then discovered that throughout Idol's then-11-season run, only nine other people had been publically disqualified. And as it turns out, all of them happened to be black.

The contestants' attorney claims that these eliminations were all part of a "cruel and inhumane" plot to humiliate black singers to boost ratings. According to Freeman, it starts as early as the background checks when producers ask, "Have you ever been arrested?" This is a violation of the California employment law, Freeman asserts, since his clients were applying for "employment" with Idol and it is therefore illegal to ask about their arrest histories.

Freeman alleges that the producers would then use those answers, along with arrest records obtained by private investigators, to perpetuate "destructive stereotypes" about black people when the information would later be revealed on Idol.

According to Freeman, none of the disqualified contestants were convicted of the crimes they were charged with at the time of their eliminations, yet the show made his clients appear to be "violent criminals, liars and sexual deviants."